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Installing Smart Notebook 10 and Smartboard Drivers on all the computers in your network.

Prepare Smart Notebook 10 Files

Download Smart Notebook 10 full installation smart_notebook_software.zip from http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/SBS/Windows/NB10SoftwareOnlyWin.htm

Download the Smartboard Drivers smartproductdriveradmin.zip from http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/SBS/Windows/NB10DriverOnly.htm

Download the SMART Install Manager install manager.exe from http://downloads.smarttech.com/software/SBS/1.0.39.1/Install%20Manager.exe

Download 10.6 registration fix smartnotebook10.6-regfix.zip from http://downloads01.smarttech.com/techsupport/k1fi2rh8stf3eja6kjs1sdl0wa/smartnotebook10.6-regfix.zip

Install the install manager.

Extract the smart notebook software.zip files to a new folder for example c:\notebook.

Extract the smart drivers to a new folder for example c:\smartdrivers.

Customise SMART Notebook and Drivers

Customise SMART Notebook

Run the SMART Install manager (you will find it in the start menu under SMART Technologies)

Click File -> Open and choose the file c:\notebook\SMART Notebook.msi

• Installation options: I leave the default installation path. Input your product key into the Product Key box
  
• SMART Notebook Math Tools: I chose not to install the free trial (untick the box)
• SMART Product Update (SPU) Options: Untick the Install SMART product Update and Notify Users boxes
• Gallery Content: Select the Share Gallery content with all computers from a common network location radio button. Enter the network path to the Gallery content using UNC paths eg. \\server\share\GalleryContent
  
• Team Content (Optional): Enter the UNC path to the shared folder for team content.
• My Content: Enter the path for users to save their own "My Content" eg %userprofile%\MyDocuments\SMARTNotebook
• Customer Experience: Select the "Allow users to participate" radio button.
• Print Capture: Tick the Install print capture drive if you would like the Smart printer installed (for printing SMART notebook to a file).
  

Click File -> Publish

Save the .mst file into the c:\notebook folder

Open the file c:\notebook\SMART Notebook.msi with Orca

Click Transform -> Apply Transform. Select the .mst you saved in c:\notebook

In the InstallUISqeuence Table:

• Drop the "LaunchContentUninstaller" row
• Drop the "LaunchContentUninstallerSilent" row

You will need to drop these rows to prevent a condition where windows installer will hang "removing managed software". The installer will try to remove the shared gallery content, which ordinarily be read-only.

In the Property table check the following changes:

• ENABLE_MATH_TRIAL = 0
• ACTIVATE_LICENSE = 0
• CUSTOMER_LOGGING = 0
• ISCHECKFORPRODUCTUPDATES = 0
• PRODUCT_NOTIFICATION = 0
• FULL_GALLERY = 1
• ADMIN_CONTENT = 1
• ARTS_CONTENT = 1
• ENGLISH_CONTENT = 1
• GEOGRAPHY_CONTENT = 1
• HISTORY_CONTENT = 1
• LAT_CONTENT = 1
• MATH_CONTENT = 1
• PEOPLE_CONTENT = 1
• SCIENCE_CONTENT = 1
• SPECIAL_CONTENT = 1
• SPORTS_CONTENT = 1
• MY_CONTENT = %userprofile%\MyDocuments\SMARTNotebook
• ISX_SERIALNUM = <your product key>
• CONTENT_TARGET_PATH = <UNC path to shared gallery>
• DISALLOW_DOWNLOAD = 1
• NETWORK_CONTENT = 1
• TEAM_CONTENT_PATH = <UNC path to team content>
• Drop the "INSTALL_SPU" row
  

Click Transform -> Generate Transform and save the new .mst into the c:\notebook folder

Customise SMART drivers

Run the SMART Install manager (you will find it in the start menu under SMART Technologies)

Click File -> Open and choose the file c:\smartdrivers\SMART Product Drivers.msi

• Installation Options: Leave the Installation directory blank
• SMART Product Update: Untick the "Install SMART Product Update" and "Notify users about SMART product updates" tick boxes
• SMART Tools: I untick the "SMART Tools at Logon" on some sites - this enables/disables the toolbar that appears on the side of the screen.
• Tablet PC Support: Untick "Enable Tablet PC Support"
• SNMP Agent: Untick the SNMP agent
• Web Server: Untick the Start SMART Web server

Click File -> Publish

Save the .mst file into the c:\smartdrivers folder

Deploy SMART Notebook and Drivers

Copy the c:\notebook and c:\smartdrivers folders to your deployment share.

Add both .msi files to the GPO - don't forget to apply the .mst files that you have edited too!

Note: Don't add the other .mst files that are included with the original download.

Note: you will see a flash 10 activex msi file in the notebook folder - you can ignore this one (I recommend deploying Adobe flash player seperately)

Registry Settings

SMART technologies have identified a problem with the 10.6 version of smart notebook where certain registry keys are not correctly added during the install process that prevent SMART notebook from starting up properly unless an administrator has previously run the program. More info on the issue here: http://www2.smarttech.com/kbdoc/144376

The fix is to run the .reg file downloaded in the Preparation section on each machine. To do this I call the .reg file during the machine's startup script. For example, copy the .reg file into the NETLOGON share of the server and call it from the script like this:

regedit.exe /s \\server\netlogon\SMARTNotebook10.6.reg